Cyanogenmod 13 nightlies to begin supporting fingerprint scanner on Galaxy S5

01 March, 2016
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  • 03 Mar 2016

Herodroid, 02 Mar 2016Well, the thing is custom Roms hadn't support for fingerpri... moreNow I understand...lol

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    • 02 Mar 2016

    The lads over at XDA does amazing works. I've been running Marshmallow on an old Galaxy S2 i9100 for a month now, and no major hiccups so far. Smoother and lighter than Samsung's own last official Jelly Bean update from two and a half years ago. Expect to see newer, unlockable, Knox-less Samsung devices to get AOSP supports far in the future.

      Vancer, 02 Mar 2016What does it mean? i dont understand. S5 has a fingerprint ... moreYes, it is the first S series to have fingerprint scanner. Since always. But not the same type we see in S6 or S7. It is the 'swipe' type. Completely different form of technology we use today.

        Who said that s5 is a old phone? lol. I An here with really old - Samsung galaxy ace 2 and now rocking with cm13 marshmallow 6.0.1 like a boss. ROM is stable, only few bugs which will be fixed. :)

          Vancer, 02 Mar 2016What does it mean? i dont understand. S5 has a fingerprint ... moreWell, the thing is custom Roms hadn't support for fingerprint scanner to work. Now sources got revealed and developers can add fingerprint scanner support in their Roms.

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            • 02 Mar 2016

            What does it mean? i dont understand. S5 has a fingerprint scanner already...

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              • 02 Mar 2016

              So I hope this will not work for my s5 G900h model??

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                • 02 Mar 2016

                Not a big fan of S5. Hope the support would come to more samsung devices running AOSP...

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